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Female to Male Transsexualism

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A transsexual person is someone who identifies as a member of the sex opposite to his or her assigned sex. This chapter will focus on total phallic construction in patients affected by female to male gender identity disorder.

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  1. St peter’s andrology and the Institute of Urology, University College London Hospitals, Urology Centre, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex, UK

    Giulio Garaffa MD, FRCS (Urol)

  2. St peter’s andrology and the Institute of Urology, University College London Hospitals, 145 Harley Street, London, W1G 6BJ, UK

    David J. Ralph

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Correspondence to Giulio Garaffa MD, FRCS (Urol) .

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  1. Urology, University of Naples AOU Federico II, Naples, Italy

    Vincenzo Mirone

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Garaffa, G., Ralph, D.J. (2015). Female to Male Transsexualism. In: Mirone, V. (eds) Clinical Uro-Andrology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45018-5_3

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